A personification of Purity

We are grateful to Dottoressa Francesca Baldassare for confirming the attribution, made on the basis of a photograph (written communication 27 April 1999). A later version of the present work is in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (see J. Byam Shaw, Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church Oxford, London, 1967, p. 63, no. 69 and fig. 18, as attributed to Pignone).